The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

I love living in London.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

Memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture.

He who knows to be afraid has a higher chance of living!

One of the major requirement for life's success is discipline.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.